Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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DEANS AND VICE-DEANS. C. F. Curtiss S. A. Beach S. W. Beyer F. W. Stanton C H. Stance Anson Marston Mrs. Marian Kilboome (Agriculture) (Agriculture) (Engineering) (Junior College) (Veterinary) (Engineering) (D. of Women)

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ALBERT BOYNTON STORMS.

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«i Having tije Jfountrations;. (Extracts.) BY CHARLES E. BESSEY. HALF century seems like a long time to us today, and yet I must ask you to go back a littls further still to the beginnings of this collegz when a few earnest men secured the passage of a bill by the legislature providing for the selection of a proper site on which to build an agricultural college. Among these early advocates of the college was Suel Foster of Muscatine. I remember him as a spare little man with a sparkling eye, and a quick, in- cisive speech. Always in earnest, always thinking of the good of the community, not self-seeking, he was a model citizen. Well might this college erect a memorial tablet in his honor, and plant an oak tree to keep green his memory. On this tablet inscribe the words Suel Foster, pioneer, patriot, lover of trees and fruits, advocate of agricultural education, friend of the college. On the tree you plant, place the simple label, The Suel Foster Oak, and as the years come and go, its growth and virzscznce shall serve to remind us that such lives as his live in their good deeds. The spirit of this pioneer still lives on this beautiful campus, and here we should perennially honor his memory. It is a matter of history that when it came to selecting a site for the college, the committee was divided between those who favored this site, and those who. preferred another a few miles east of the city of Des Moines, and Suel Foster told me that it was his vote that brought the committee to favor this location. For many years it seemed that the other would have been the better site, and there were many who ridiculed and denounced the selection, for no place in the state seemed to be more hopelessly isolated. Think of planning to set down a college in a thinly settled part of the state, away from the railroad, and separated from a miserable little village by the almost impassable bottoms of an uncontrollable prairie stream. It required a faith like that which can move moun- tains, to see in this remote site the beauty which now greets the eye. And no doubt Suel Foster ' s prophetic eye saw as in a vision the beauty of this scene today, as it is given to some to catch glimpses in this life of the sweet fields of Eden in the world of the hereafter.